Has anyone used this platform for storing their cookbooks? http://www.eatyourbooks.com. It seems like a good idea. I would love to be able to search for an ingredient and have a list of recipes from my cookbook collection pop up.

I hate that it's not free. Are there other sites like this one that are free?

Aww, that would be so useful! I've been waiting for someone to design an app or something to do this for a few years. I did think about trying to add recipes to a spreadsheet that I could search but... I have about 50 cookbooks and I really, really don't want to do that, haha!

Yeah, I checked this out today, and it seems super cool. I don't end that it costs some money, but $25 per year seems crazy. I could get a couple more cookbooks with that money! I have been really really wanting this sort of thing for a while. I hope something cheaper comes along!

I signed up for this site today - I paid $25 for the year long membership. We have a CSA, and I've been looking through all my cookbooks obsessively over the past few weeks looking up chard, turnip, summer squash recipes. I just figured that the site would make it so much easier, I'll probably save at least $25 avoiding wasted CSA produce alone! It's a really cool concept and I think it's going to make it easier to meal plan. For those that don't know how it works - first you input all the cookbooks you have. I would say about 90% of my cookbooks are already indexed in the system. Then you type what you're looking for - say "lentils and rice" and it will pull up all the recipes from your cookbooks that have both lentils and rice. It gives you the page number and also the other ingredients (at least those that aren't pantry staples), so you can easily scan through and pick one that's appealing/that you have the ingredients for. You can also sort by type of cuisine, type of course (main, salad, etc.), type of nutrition (vegan, gluten free, etc.). Usually I love flipping through my actual cookbooks for inspiration, but during CSA season, I will definitely appreciate the help from the website. :-) Does anyone else use the site?

While not the same, I like http://vegansprout.com for looking for reviews of specific recipes from vegan cookbooks. If the ingredient isn't in the title, it doesn't help with your goal but it has way more reviews than EYB. I actually found EYB didn't have the majority of my cookbooks.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this site! I have 60 vegan/vegetarian cookbooks, and almost 50 are indexed on the site. All I do is type in whatever I'm in the mood for or whatever ingredients I need to use up, and the perfect solution is found! I actually personally indexed about 10 of the books myself :) I'm not affiliated with them in any way, I just honestly love this site. The yearly fee is worth it to me because it actually gets me to use my cookbooks!

I used the trial membership to enter all my cookbooks. Out of 94 cookbooks I own (the number doesn't include a few self-published freebie ebooks I picked up on Amazon), 54 are indexed there. That leaves 40 that aren't, but it's still nice to have even 54 of them entered.

For the fun of it, I entered "potato salad" in the recipe search, and Eat Your Books spit out 103 results. Only about half of those are actually for potato salad-- the other results are mostly for salads with potatoes among their many ingredients. But still, it's amazing to realize that I have 50+ recipes for potato salad at my disposal, and that's not including the 40 cookbooks that aren't indexed.

For the fun of it, I entered "potato salad" in the recipe search, and Eat Your Books spit out 103 results. Only about half of those are actually for potato salad-- the other results are mostly for salads with potatoes among their many ingredients. But still, it's amazing to realize that I have 50+ recipes for potato salad at my disposal, and that's not including the 40 cookbooks that aren't indexed.

Did you enter "potato salad" inside quotes? If not, you will get all recipes containing "potato" and "salad" as keywords.

For the fun of it, I entered "potato salad" in the recipe search, and Eat Your Books spit out 103 results. Only about half of those are actually for potato salad-- the other results are mostly for salads with potatoes among their many ingredients. But still, it's amazing to realize that I have 50+ recipes for potato salad at my disposal, and that's not including the 40 cookbooks that aren't indexed.

Did you enter "potato salad" inside quotes? If not, you will get all recipes containing "potato" and "salad" as keywords.

No, I didn't think to use quotes but I will from now on. With quotes used, Eat Your Books returns 52 results which is still pretty awesome.

I just signed up for this and paid the 25 bucks for the year membership. If it helps me use my cookbooks and ingredients in new ways, that's worth it to me!

Some of the books I have aren't indexed yet, but they have a "request indexing" button, which I've been using. It's crazy that when you type "vegan" into the library search, over 1100 titles pop up. There are some duplicates in there, but damn, we've come a long way.

Right now I'm just enjoying this crazy winter thunderstorm and entering my cookbook titles. Then I'm going to try searching to see what to make for dinner tonight. They also have a shopping list feature that will list all the ingredients in a dish and tell you what ingredients you will need. I'd like to use that as a tool for mealplanning - to see what I have and what I still need.

I just joined. I've been looking for something like this for a while (missed this thread) and just got so frustrated the other day when I *knew* I had about a dozen recipes for something and couldn't find any of them in the first half dozen books I checked.

It seems good so far, I just wish that they had more books indexed. About half of mine seem to be indexed, and the ones published outside the US aren't available to import. This is frustrating if you have any kind of international collection! I have temporarily lost my deliciouslibrary index in a computer crash, but if you already use DL, it would be a great way to easily import all your books.

At first I balked at paying, but $2/month seems reasonable. Indexing the books probably requires a lot of human effort. It's nice that you can index a book to increase your free library size, too, though it doesn't seem like enough. They should let you put in more like 5 books extra per one you index and then I bet everything would be indexed much faster!!